After a full meal, Su Yan held her round belly and groggy head and went out to take a breath. Unexpectedly, Zuo Qing came to her. She was so frightened that she woke up for the most part. She quickly cheered up and said: "
Mr. Applause is so elegant, you can meet him here!"
Zuo Qing seemed to choke, and after a while he asked: "Why are you here?"
Su Yan raised his eyebrows and asked him with sharp eyes: "Why are you here?"
Zuo Qing didn't want to be questioned by her, so she turned to leave.
Su Yan quickly grabbed him and said, "Come here, come share a table with us!"
"You? Who else?"
Su Yan said with some excitement: "He is the famous General Yan Zhenyan! You said I am unlucky, because every time I go on the street I can meet a big shot who is one of the best in Ruoshui in terms of martial arts and popularity! What's even more lucky is that
He actually invited me over for a drink. A hero with great military exploits like him actually looked up to me, a commoner..." At this point, she suddenly remembered that Zuo Qing was under Mo Fei's command, and Mo Fei's sister was married to
Prince Zheng is his concubine, and Yan Zhen is the only son of Princess Zheng’s eldest son Pingle. These two women have always been at odds with each other. Yan Zhen must be disgusted with anyone related to Mo Fei. Not only that, Yan Zhen has a lot of troops.
, Mo Fei controls three provinces and six ministries... These two people must not be friendly, right?
Su Yan began to feel uneasy. If Zuo Qing had a seizure and wanted to please the general to ease the relationship between the two families, how could he end up according to Yan Zhen's temper?
Just as he was struggling, a young man in white robe came not far away. He could feel the spring breeze blowing on his face from a distance, "Drinking is a good thing, how can you leave me out?"
Su Yan rubbed his eyes and exclaimed "Xi Lou" in surprise. Xi Lou was a little depressed by the reluctant "Xi Lou", "What, you are not happy to see me?"
"No, no, no! Didn't I drink too much and thought I was dazzled?"
Xilou glanced at Zuo Qing and said with a smile: "Which room are you in? Why don't you lead us to have fun together."
"Well..." Su Yan was a little embarrassed. The two of them were so interested, and they obviously wanted to take this opportunity to flatter Yan Zhen, so he thought of an excuse and said, "It's getting late, and I'm planning to go back to the academy!"
Xilou looked at the scorching sun outside the window doubtfully, poked Su Yan's forehead and said, "Are you drunk and blinded? Stop talking nonsense, let's go see the general!"
Su Yan looked at the sky in pain and let them carry him away.
Yan Zhen's face has never felt better since he saw Zuo Qing and Xi Lou.
"Who else did I think? Isn't this Lord Shangshu's adopted son Zuo Qing, and the second son of the Yan Kingdom, Xilou! What happened today? Could it be that I forgot to tell myself a fortune when I went out, and I accidentally touched him all at once?
Falling in love with two of the most annoying people in life is like black smoke rising from the graves of your ancestors, and you will be unlucky all day long!"
Su Yan forced himself to smooth things over, "We are all colleagues, colleagues should move around more!"
"Walk around? Are you afraid of sprained feet?" Yan Zhen showed no mercy at all.
Xilou calmly bowed and bowed, "General, your words are serious. Your humble position is just that of the head of Wanchaofang and the second son of the Yan Kingdom. It is just a false name. Compared with the general's full body of achievements, this humble position is not worth mentioning. If he had been there before,
If there is any misunderstanding, please forgive me, General."
Zuo Qing also bowed his hands and said: "I have always admired the general. You have made great achievements in battle, and I can't even compare to you."
Su Yan was shocked. The two of them usually looked aloof and indifferent. How come they were flattering each other now? And they did so shamelessly!
Yan Zhen looked stern and said, "You, Zuo Qing, have a very high threshold. Even my good brother couldn't bribe you. Why are you here to please me today?"
Su Yan said weakly: "We're all here to drink. It's a place of fireworks... we're all friends!"
"You drank with them? What's your relationship?"
"What kind of relationship?" Su Yan pretended to be dumbfounded, "That's just a normal relationship. Zuo Qing and I just met by chance... Well!"
Zuo Qing explained unhurriedly: "Xiaoguan and Miss Su met in Chu State, and they became friends after going back and forth. It happened that Miss Su wanted to come to Rong State, so she brought her over. Thinking that Miss Su was not familiar with the place, she decided to
Temporarily place her in the academy and give her a position so that she can make a living."
"Is this the position you gave me?" Yan Zhen was surprised.
Zuo Qing smiled and avoided the topic, "Since the general is drinking here, I can't disturb him."
Su Yan was a little reluctant when he heard that he was leaving, "Why are you here and leaving at the same time?"
Xilou explained: "Oh! Suddenly I remembered that we had something urgent to do when we came out this time, and we came to Yunlai Pavilion half-way. Since we have had so much fun, we still have to do something serious." Saying goodbye to Yan Zhen,
"General, use it with caution. Your subordinates and commanders have already taken their leave. There is no need to see each other off!"
Of course Yan Zhen would not see the guests off, hoping they would leave as soon as possible. He patted the soft girl next to him and asked her to come and sit down.
"Do you know the details about Zuo Qing, so you dare to follow him all the way to Ruoshui? Aren't you afraid that he will take advantage of you?"
I have long heard that Zuo Qing is a very secretive person, even his origins are mysterious, but now he is following his sister like a shadow! If he has found out her sister's identity a long time ago, then his purpose must not be simple!
Su Yan disagreed and said: "Zuo Qing is my savior. When the master left, he was the one who took me here and settled me. How could he harm me?"
"You still have a master? Can you beat me? If you can't even beat me, you'd better not worship him as your master, worship me instead!"
Seeing his younger brother's look of shamelessness, Su Yan couldn't help but tease: "Then one day I will bring a pig's trotter to your house to become a disciple, and I will kneel down and kowtow at the same time?"
Yan Zhen became distressed: "I am your brother, if you worship me, you will be struck by lightning, that's all, it's just a pig's trotters!"
"We haven't seen each other for a few years, but you are so thick-skinned. Look at you, you are wearing all kinds of fancy clothes. I heard people say that you stopped studying in the academy a long time ago and became a heretic?"
Yan Zhenda waved his sleeves: "A serious master, I am also a serious person!"
"Serious, not adulterated?"
Yan Zhen twitched the corner of his mouth and lowered his head to drink the wine. Su Yan's laughter lingered in his ears, but he could no longer laugh.
Zuo Qing and his colleagues in Xilou turned to a very hidden room on the inside of the ground floor. Someone opened the door and invited them in.
The room is elegantly and simply decorated. There is a goose-yellow screen in the center, which is no different from the furnishings in the brothel in Chucheng. There is a couch behind the screen and a tea table. There is a copper stove in one corner of the screen.
The kettle was steaming and making a shrill sound.
Xu Niang picked it up and prepared to make tea.
"This is the first time we met in Ruoshui. Ruoshui's tea is the loudest. I bought it specially in the morning." Xu Niang poured three cups of tea and raised her eyes to meet Zuo Qing's eyes. "You moved faster than I expected."
, just, don’t you want to hear what they have to say?”
Zuo Qing said: "You don't need to listen to know what they are talking about. Eavesdropping will only lead to suspicion."
While they were talking, the two of them had already taken their seats. Xu Niang sat down opposite them and added, "Yan Zhen loves her sister. He will agree to whatever Su Yan says. As long as the Xilou can get Su Yan's people, Yan Zhen will naturally follow your lead."
Even though he is no longer a general, there are brothers in the Habayashi Army who are willing to fight for him through life and death. On the day Yanzhen resigned, hundreds of people from the Imperial Guard left the palace and went to Gezheng's patrol to register their names.
"She held her hands and rubbed her thumbs back and forth, "Let me remind you, when he goes crazy, he will not care about his sister's face. We have to take our time in this game."
Xilou said: "Although Yan Zhen has great martial arts skills, he is simple-minded and easy to deal with. But Prince Zheng...may not be easy to convince."
"Nine years ago, it was not that he was unwilling to investigate thoroughly, but at such a disadvantage and with family ties behind him, he had to swallow his anger. He has indeed become timid in the past nine years, but now the situation cannot help him shrink back.
Zuo Qing said coolly, "Find a good time and let's go meet this wise king."
Xilou sighed slightly when he thought of Prince Zheng, and thousands of thoughts came to his heart.
Xu Niang and Zuo Qing looked at each other, not knowing how to comfort them, so they both fell silent.
Xilou did not linger in his memories, took a sip of tea, and said to Xu Niang: "I thought moving would be troublesome, but I didn't expect you to move Yunlai Pavilion here so easily. It seemed like I didn't miss anything.
"
Xu Niang smiled easily: "Money can make the world go round!" As she said that, she turned her head and looked outside the door, and said to them, "Just now I sent Mo Xuan back to the room, and suddenly I saw Chang Sun Xi, who seemed to be
She was very shocked by the appearance of Chang Sun Yue and Su Yan, and then she hurried back, as if she was planning something. This person is a trouble, and I'm worried that she will be unfavorable to Su Yan in the future and will affect your plans."
Zuo Qing didn't take seriously the precious granddaughter of the eldest grandson's family. She was just a rich girl who thought too highly of herself. She relied on her marriage to the Mo family and the doting of the eldest grandson's husband to do whatever she wanted in the academy. This kind of person couldn't hold back her big feelings.
Conspiracy, no threat. If he really wanted to stir up trouble, he would have his own way to make her unable to move.
After Xu Niang saw that he didn't take it to heart at all, she said nothing and smiled and gave them more tea.
At this time, Xilou thought that Zuo Qing had done a lot of things that went against his principles in order to gain Mo Fei's trust over the years. Although he could get wind and rain in Ruoshui, he should be suffering in his conscience...
"When all these things are done, I will leave you with a few dead men. Whether it is a river or lake, you can do whatever you want and be yourself."
"Jianghu?" A wry smile stretched from the corner of Zuo Qing's mouth, "I have always been in the Jianghu, have you forgotten?" He took out the brocade box from his arms and opened it to find a piece of human finger bone, engraved with a name - Zeno.
He gently stroked his knuckles, and the sadness in his eyes became more and more intense under the candlelight. "Two years ago, in the woods outside the academy, I followed Mo Fei back to his hometown. On the way, a group of swordsmen suddenly appeared. They were holding weapons on the list.
It was one of the most powerful weapons, but before Mo Fei even got close to him, they were all killed by his swords. They were all killed with one knife, so clean and crisp! This was the first time I witnessed a fight with my own eyes, or maybe it was a massacre.
I originally thought that eradicating Mo Fei could be done without bloodshed. I could expose his crimes step by step and let the national law punish him! But I forgot how many righteous people would die for this in each step, and how many enemies would stand by.
Killed by me on the opposite side!"
Zuo Qing closed his eyes in pain: "Wherever there are people, there is desire, and desire leads to killing. This is the rivers and lakes! Xilou, Ruoshui is the center of the rivers and lakes, and I have never been there. Zeno is one of those swordsmen.
Member, he is only sixteen years old, and he is not married yet! I stood next to Murphy and watched all this happen, but I couldn't do anything!"
Xilou looked at him seriously. Zeno's face suddenly appeared in front of him, overlapping with Zuo Qing's. He opened his mouth in pain, but could not say anything. Xilou closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, Zuo Qing was already there.
He put the finger bones on the table, offered a cup of tea in front of them, and said: "I was careless and underestimated the dead soldiers around Murphy, and I ruined these lives in vain! I keep reminding myself of these painful costs, one day
, I will make Mo Fei pay back a hundred times a thousand times!"
A strange look flashed across Xu Niang's expression, and it passed quickly. She said to Zuo Qing: "We are reunited here just to make him repay, but before that we need to have a complete plan. Are there any in the Three Provinces and Six Ministries?
Detailed countermeasures?”
Zuo Qing held the porcelain cup, touched the brocade box lightly, and drank it all. "Liang Qiluo, the daughter of Liang Luan of Zhongshu Province, Sun Xi, the niece of Sun Xun, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, and Sun Yue, the daughter of Sun Wuzheng, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishments are now
They are all in Shuyoutang, and their weaknesses have been exposed in front of my eyes. I only need to lay a trap, and they can be captured one by one. But I can't do it myself, it is easy to leave traces. When Mo Fei sees through it, our hard work will be
It was all in vain, so I thought of a good idea."
"What?" they both asked at the same time.
"Su Yan came to the forefront, and we helped him secretly, without anyone noticing."
"By doing this, Mo Fei really didn't expect that we were dealing with him. But... this could easily put Ayan in danger." Xilou could not accept his plan and raised questions.
"Being in Shura is full of dangers." Seeing that Xilou was still worried, he continued, "The people we have placed in the court are not strong enough. If they are used easily, they will easily attract the attention of the Mexican Party. If we make a mistake, all our previous efforts will be wasted.
, we can only find another way, and now we can only borrow Su Yan’s help. Perhaps, after Prince Zheng finds out, he will speed up the pace to help us."
Xu Niang felt that this plan was feasible and agreed: "This is a good idea. When Su Yan is in the academy, he will always interact with the children of the aristocratic families. As long as there is a perfect plan, he will definitely be able to make good use of it! Then...who do you want to touch first now?
?”
Zuo Qing slowly raised the corners of his mouth and drank the tea in one gulp.